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Tweet n. 1. A law designed to prohibit or limit the transaction of commercial business or the holding of recreational activities on Sundays. 2. One of a body of laws in colonial New England designed to enforce certain moral standards and particularly to prohibit specified forms of entertainment or recreation on Sundays. |
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